Hidden Leaf In My Heart

[Intro]
Wind in my face
Dust in my teeth
Same old road
Same old grief
(yeah)

[Verse 1]
Sleepless
I’m staring at that cracked frame
Little kid
Orange coat
Still the same flame
Every promise that I broke
Becomes a weight chain
Every name I couldn’t save
Echoes in the rain

They said I’m cursed
Just a shadow with a bad fate
Smile on my face
But my chest in an earthquake
I keep running
Even limping on a half‑leg
’Cause I’d rather die on the path
Than in a glass cage

[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me, what’s a scar
To a heart that’s still beating?
What’s a fall
To a soul that’s still breathing?
I’ve been alone
But I’m done with retreating
If the pain is a teacher
Then I’m done with the reading (yeah)

[Chorus]
I keep that hidden leaf in my heart
Even when the whole sky falls apart
Tears on my face
But I won’t lose my mark
Turn every wound
To a seal on my arm

If the world turns its back
I’ll still stand
Bloody knuckles, I rise
With open hands
I was broken, forgotten
Left in the dark
Now I glow from the cracks
That’s my art
(yeah, that’s my art)

[Verse 2]
You don’t see the nights
I was talking to the silence
Begging all my demons
They could ease up on the violence
Pulled by the past
But I’m done being spineless
Turned every “why me”
To a war cry, timeless

I’ve watched friends fall
Felt that earth shake twice
Learned to read goodbyes
In their last cold smiles
Still I walk on
Through a thousand trials
’Cause the dream in my chest
Never learned how to die

[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me, what’s a loss
To a will that’s still burning?
What’s a curse
To a heart that’s still learning?
I was the kid
Nobody was affirming
Now I’m the voice in the dark
Saying “keep on turning”

[Chorus]
I keep that hidden leaf in my heart
Even when the whole sky falls apart
Tears on my face
But I won’t lose my mark
Turn every wound
To a seal on my arm

If the world turns its back
I’ll still stand
Bloody knuckles, I rise
With open hands
I was broken, forgotten
Left in the dark
Now I glow from the cracks
That’s my art
(yeah, that’s my art)

[Bridge]
I’ll carry every name
Written on my spine
All the ghosts walk with me
When I cross that line
If I fall today
Let it be in stride
Facing forward
Fists clenched
Open eyes (hey)

[Chorus]
I keep that hidden leaf in my heart
Even when the whole sky falls apart
Tears on my face
But I won’t lose my mark
Turn every wound
To a seal on my arm

If the world turns its back
I’ll still stand
Bloody knuckles, I rise
With open hands
From the rubble, from sorrow
I’ll restart
’Cause the pain made a hero
From a broken heart
(yeah, from a broken heart)